Sunday Reading
...American politics ReclaimUC: Since the 1980s, university administrators have blamed tuition hikes on everything from utility bills and libraries to lazy professors and diversity Cutting jobs to fund university buildings...
Free Fall
When sex-work decriminalization will never be enough, we have to find other ways to keep each other alive
Tweeting the Beat
...and aren’t fazed by drunk driving penalties. It’s part of the culture. Because what else are you going to do when it’s 10 below and the Packers just lost? TNI:...
Dominate
...News Feed and like buttons led to a company culture in which personality traits and experiences needed a "proof of concept" through appropriate metrics before being embraced as cool. As...
Biopunk: Subverting Biopolitics
A three-way essay on biopunk, futurism, and rejecting genetic determinism.
Carceral Educations
...in the Bronx a few days a week to teach GED preparation courses. My students were 17-to 24-year-olds with some sort of criminal record. We used to make jokes about...
Not Feeling It
An interview with Xine Yao on how, and which, feelings are racialized
Power Loss
...knock the entire continent off the grid, and the lights would not come on again. Cue high-stress action music: Computer screens would go dark. Cell phones would go dead. Any...
Hidden Costs
When Prison Labor Gets Upsold as Artisanal Kitsch
I Have No Mouth but I Must Scream
...and instead attack their source, the mouths of others, puts her in a position to combat oppression. In other words, Fiona is rendered speechless by the dominant culture, and the...
Drama for Cannibals
...and foreign than encourage them to form social analyses based on their common experiences. American culture as a whole has little use for narratives about the intelligence and sophistication of...
Against Extinction
...occupation of lands abroad--this is the vile extent and pervasiveness of rape culture. Know that a true critique and denouncement of capitalism can only come from those who do not...
The African is Not at Home
...culmination of a more insidious systemic violence that otherises Somalis in Kenya daily: in ethno-chauvinist discourse, in derogatory remarks and representations in popular culture, in economic and political marginalisation. Government...
Lonely and crying
...seemed to temporarily change everything about culture, the group is sometimes mistakenly regarded as nothing more than falsetto-wielding disco appropriators. But before that, the Bee Gees had a long, successful...
Sunday Reading
...Us Free" ReclaimUC: Why college rape survivors don't go to the police Student debt grows faster at universities with highest-paid leaders The one percent at state U A history from...
Trigger Warning Week
...means, and what we think it means. As a culture, we still refuse collectively to accept that most rapes are committed by ordinary men, men who have friends and families,...